Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

God gives wisdom to who dare ask for it.

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.