I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Only write a story that only you can write.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.