her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

We cannot be afraid of the dark that they live in.

Write like a motherfucker.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.