“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”

“There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.”

“That it should come to this!.”

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

“The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.”

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”