it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.