It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable