No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Custom makes monsters of us all.

No art should be fashionable.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.

I expected you to look... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly?

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

We're God too but we don't realise it.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.