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The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.
Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.
Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.
The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up
Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.
There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.
"Miss you," he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.
I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now
I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
If thou followeth a wall far enough, there must be a door in it.
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.