Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.