He is every other inch a gentleman.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

No great thing happens suddenly.