I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.
A foe to God was never true friend to man
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
And if I please you so, my lover, Remember praise is comely.
My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
