"Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree."

“As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.”

Source : "Bit and Peace: Lauren Groff's Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

“I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.”

“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”

“The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.”

“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”

Source : Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.85, A&C Black

“All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.”

“Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!”

“Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.”

Source : Nora Raleigh Baskin (2010). “Anything But Typical”, p.47, Simon and Schuster