Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Aspire to be who you most admire

If we get better with ‘Experience’ then why doesn’t the romance get better and better with every year in most of the marriages?

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.