There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

The law is above the law, you know.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.

Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.

He was determined to stick with his plan, convincing himself to stay neutral and detached. That's the plan!Then she leaned over him.

This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.