The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.