You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

When Christ was born, so was our hope.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.