But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.