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

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

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.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.