He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?