But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

One of the major differences between successful people and unsuccessful people is that they never stop trying in whatever it is that they do.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Dive into the sea, or stay away

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.