Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

Bio-technology is the science of the future.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.