One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.