"How far we travel in life matters..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.”

“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”

“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.”

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

“The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.”

“Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”

“We wake from one dream into another dream.”

“The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.”

“Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”