The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.