What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

To be successful choose an area of focus in life. It will identify where your energy should be invested and (more importantly) the source of your joy and success.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

There are no smooth paths to success. You have to straighten many rugged roads and scale numerous walls for the ultimate triumph.

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.