Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Things come suitable to the time.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.