There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

If he should love deny him what he loves!