“Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along lifes path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrows road.”

“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.”

“To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!”

“Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.”

“Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.”

“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”

“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”

“And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”