Without music, life would be a mistake.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself--it is the occurring which is difficult.

God's will usually seemed to coincide with her father's, and against this partnership there was no hope of appeal.

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude and peace.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.