In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage, " "honestly, " or "marketplace.

Goals are compulsive cahoots, gnawing at our minds everyday, challenging our abilities and pushing us closer to the curve of compliance.

‪Write only if you wish to read it again and again while falling in love with it... ‬

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

What's the biggest problem?...People show in the films not the best ideas which have been ever exposed to the world.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.