Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

Artist awake or be forever fallen.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.