Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelfof glucose, bottled blood, machineryto swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

Eating healthy and taking care of my body and my mind really make me come alive, and seeing others doing that inspires me to stay with it. I always feel great when I do.

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away