it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.

It's not the way I wanted to spend eternity with the man I love, but it will have to do. At least we are together.

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.