“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

“A critic is a man who expects miracles.”

“What a sight the poor make in the moonlight!”

“All men of action are dreamers.”

“The silver Swan, who living had no Note,when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat.Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,thus sang her first and last, and sang no more:Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes!More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.”

“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”

“You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.”