There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almost mummified. She must have been a beauty. But the other side of her face was all bone and a horrifying sight, not the sort of thing one likes to think about after.

Christopher Vokes

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Henry David Thoreau

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Paul Cezanne

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

Nathalia Crane

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Neil Gaiman

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Olivia Williams

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

H. Rap Brown

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine.

Oscar Wilde

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second S