Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

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