"Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination."

“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

“A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.”

“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.”

“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”

Source : "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.

“Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.”

“I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.”

Source : " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.

“There's nothing I'm scared of in football.”

“Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.”