Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.