“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”

“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”

“Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.”

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.”

“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”

“Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped...”

“And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.”

“I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.”

“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express because I am my husband's life as fully as he is m...”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.”