Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.