Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.