Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.