This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.