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Hell at last … John Milton, Paradise Lost

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.

Death came before the end of his story. When he was still alive it had already happened.

Bücher liegen in der Luft. Der Schriftsteller ist nur die Brücke zwischen dem Stoff und der Niederschrift.

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.

that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.

I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.

I employ this thing I called The Shovel List." "A shovel..?" "No, a shovel list. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.

I'm seized by sudden horrible fear – the thought of living without carbs is terrifying.

Even though she was weird and saved money and hadn't had sex until she got married, I was still very fond of her.

Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?

Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav the Talking Map, like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.

He teaches us to see love as our only function.

God knows our crooked places that need to be made straight, the wounds in our hearts that fester for years unhealed, the broken pieces of our lives that seem beyond repair. And He who is the author of miracles has infinite desire as well as power to heal them all.

My ego mind—my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love—would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.

It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.

God is love. We were created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love.

Enlightenment is a shift in worldview, and only a more enlightened thinking can deliver us to an enlightened world.

extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality