Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind