I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple
Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough.
An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.
When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.