I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

Privacy is not negotiable.

Always set goals, and work as hard as you can. You'll be amazed at what you can do.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.