On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.