Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

I am the cat that walks alone.