I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

Freedom is our birthright.

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig