Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

I am simply a book drunkard.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.