"How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!"

“I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.”

“Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.”

Source : 'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.315, Sheba Blake Publishing

“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”

“It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.”

“John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.”

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”