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.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

The human heart is my school.

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.