The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.