As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.

Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend?

Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.