Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.