It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?