"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."

"My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh."

"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."

"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever."

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."

"After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her."

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."

"Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left."