Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Didn't you read the owner's ma

I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...