In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.