Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.