“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions”

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”

“All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”