It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Because fear kills everything, " Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

All writers are insane!

the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.