"The moment of change is the only poem."

"The world is full of things you don't want to know."

"We are not always what we seem, and a good trick of the mind is to convince yourself that you are what you wish to be."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."