The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

I would have done just about anything for him.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.