"I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books."

"I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone. I let myself into my tiny little studio, all alone. I s…"

"I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone…"

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even …"

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""