The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

We don't get to choose who we fall in love with. If we did, the world would have fewer single mothers.

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.