Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.