“O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir f com religio e amor com casamento.”

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation o...”

“I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it ...”

“Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.”

“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much t...”

“he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to...”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”

“Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expec...”

“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.”