Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.