That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.