It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.