The Power To Love What Is Purely

If You Have Been Sunned Through And Through Like An Apricot On A Wall From Your Earliest Days, You Are Oversensitive To Any Withdrawal Of Heat.

The First Element Of Greatness Is Fundamental Humbleness (this Should Not Be Confused With Servility); The Second Is Freedom From Self; The Third Is Intrepid Courage, Which, Taken In Its Widest Interpretation, Generally Goes With Truth; And The Fourth-the Power Of Love-although I Have Put It Last, Is The Rarest.

The Announcement That You Are Going To Tell A Good Story (and The Chuckle That Precedes It) Is Always A Dangerous Opening.

It Is Not Dying, But Living, That Is A Preparation For Death.

Although I Am Not Stupid, The Mathematical Side Of My Brain Is Like Dumb Notes Upon A Damaged Piano.