What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.