How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.