Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.