There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.

You work, you get paid, you drink.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

I remember a lot of people, but when I meet people and I'm stoned, I'm not as good with names.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.