Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

Oh, it's you," Curran's voice said quietly. "I thought it was an elephant.

Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome

On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?

She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

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