Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive)

There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.

Anything’s possible, almost.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

If someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"

The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.