And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.