evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better.

Anything that consoles is fake.

confession ran in the family.