With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.