"Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!"

“Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.”

“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

“Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.”

Source : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

“For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.”

“I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.”

“It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.”