“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”-Oscar Wilde

Well my sister has it - she’s kind of a language nerd. So I mooch.

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

"All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is."

"There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar."

"And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing--maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. "