"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"Never accept a drink from a urologist."

"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?"

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food"

"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it."

"Worry is a purely selfish expression."

"No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."

"There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it."

"Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession."

"Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us."

"Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story,—the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper."

"She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze"

"Being an indigenous talent of the African race;"

"George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice."

"In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia."

"But at midnight — strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin — then came the messenger."