Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
Be more interested in character than reputation
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.