The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.