Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

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