You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
We all must try to be good.
We were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
Character is plot, plot is character
There's only one lesson to be learned from life anyway. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.
Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.
A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.