Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique.

Have you thrown ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ at her yet?

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.