I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be, " he said softly.

I tend to scare myself.

To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.

It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good.

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.