Will you wait for me forever?

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.