It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.