Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.