It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.