A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.