Alliteration seems to offend people.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.