Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.

But words are more powerful than anything.