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.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

My job is to help you fall in love.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.