Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Humanity is worse than flies.

Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.

if you let tragedy change you, You have already lost.

Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?