This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you.'