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

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.