Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

The question is not whether our life is purposeful, but whether that purpose leads to a hope which is proper to our nature as human beings, for only then will life be meaningful.

The limitations in life do not necessary limit you.

your depth in language cannot be considered that you are talented. only your attitude ! mind it ..

Let me share my loving care upon those who are not my children — yet, willing to see me as their Father.

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

We are all born, and then we die. Make sure you enjoy yourself while on this earth.

Shut up. What did you ask me, anyway?” – Sundown “Really? Good thing I didn’t tell you to duck a bomb.” – Sasha

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.