...morning is the soul's night.

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

I find in myself a need to get very away.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.