No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same.

Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.

Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.