Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.