The past is obdurate.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

MOM = Maker of Miracles

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

Anyone who can not write should.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.