There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.