"I love you," Laura said hopelessly. "I'd love you if you were afraid of everything in the world." - Peter S. Beagle

"Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!"

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

"Marriage isn't like football, like bocce. One isn't good at it, nobody has a special gift. You stumble along, and if there is enough love — " she smiled at him — "you learn."