Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

When everyone does what is right in his own eyes, there is no possibility of order and peace.

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school everybody hated me.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.