How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.