God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.