her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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 am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again

Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.

Periodic Paralysis is not our friend

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?