you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.