If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

The quality of the product is inseparable from the quality of its parts.

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.

I tend to have a lot of guy friends.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.