"It suddenly seemed to me that I..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window”

“There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.”

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”

“But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.”

“Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.”

“During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.”