What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.