I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.