Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

Only night can make us whole again.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.