Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

all appears to change when we change

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

The secret is to enjoy being you.

You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.