Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Language is where the tongue fails itself over & over again.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.