"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies."

"Die my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!"

"Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know."

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

"...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity."

"Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works."

"Men are only as unfaithful as their options."

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then."

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."

"The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..."