It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

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.

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

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

I am the cat that walks alone.