The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.