The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Danger is opportunity’s seer.

It's possible to avoid a war. It's impossible to stop it.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.