"I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries."

"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now."

"Better late than never."

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones."

"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise."

"When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'"