It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.