"I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much."

“The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.”

Source : "All the right moves". Interview with Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.”

Source : Speech, Cork, Ireland, 21 Jan. 1885

“Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.”

“He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “Blue Belle”, p.267, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.”

“We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.816, Heyday

“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”

“There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.”