"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

"Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

"His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness."

"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life."

"I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke."

"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God."

"It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me."