Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.