Trees're always a relief, after people.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.