You owe me nothing, but I want everything.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.