You put your time where your priority is.

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .