Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

Things can get pretty rough out there, " he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.