“By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.”

“The bitter heart eats its owner.”

“What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach.”

“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.”