Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

All the world's a stage.

I'll have no husband, if you be not he.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

Sometimes there is no solution. Sometimes there's simply an end.

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.