A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.