But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
Mark TwainLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark TwainI have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
Mark Twain