An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.