We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

I had to work from a young age.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

We must do something to let people in this country know that addiction is something that can be treated and this epidemic of prescribed opioids is something that we can fix.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.