All Quotes

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. ”

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. ”

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. ”

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. ”

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. ”

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. ”

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people. ”

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. ”

To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience. ”

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes. ”