“Why inflict pain on oneself when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?”

“The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.”

“When a man's willing and eager God joins in.”

“April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its na...”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”