"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."