One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.