Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.