Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The power of an attitude is amazing

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.