Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself.

I have patient to wait for what I desire.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day