Luke

“I define a nose, as follows,—intreating only beforehand, and beseeching my readers, both male and female, of what age, complexion, and condition soever, for the love of God and their own souls, to guard against the temptations and suggestions of the devil, and suffer him by no art or wile to put any other ideas into their minds, than what I put into my definition.—For by the word Nose, throughout all this long chapter of noses, and in every other part of my work, where the word Nose occurs,—I declare, by that word I mean a Nose, and nothing more, or less.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
― Mark Twain

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern