"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."

"I rely on my personality for birth control."

"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil."

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

"Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him."

"When you're a team of one, you're always captain."

"A show of daring oft conceals great fear."

"You teach best what you most need to learn."

"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example."

"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."