I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.