The best of a human being is still a human being.

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.

Under the seams runs the pain.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.