When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.
Books are the carriers of civilization. . . . . . . . Books are humanity in print.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.