The drawings are terribly good.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.

Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad."-Nastasya

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.

They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.