...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.