She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

When one person is enslaved, we’re all enslaved.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.