The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.