September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you.

Well, she was through. If he wanted her, he'd have to do something about it.

Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming.

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.