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

But no man's a hero to himself.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.