...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

One is always at home in one's past...

Surround yourself with things that make you smile.”

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories

Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.