Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.