Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

Why does a heart wear its eyesinto helllike slivers of false sunshine

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.