"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,Out of..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.”

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

“She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”

“You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!”

“Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.”

“It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

“When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.”

“Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.”