fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name.

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

Look at the people around you. Some Inspire you, some Perspire you. Be with those that build Energy in you.-RVM

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.