What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.