“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”

“The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.”

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”