"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."

"Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations…"

"I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules."

"The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed."

"In her heart it didn't give her near the same feeling that music did. Nothing was really as good as music."

"Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition."

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter."

"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure."

"The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

"Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

"Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,"

"Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief."

"If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all."

"I eat very well, and I do Pilates."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."