We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

When you are irrationally irrational you may find that life is magical.

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.