Vice is its own reward.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.