What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

Start to Better Ourselves and Then the Global.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.