Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.