I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.

Who but lovers dream alike?

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.