The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are respons… - Katherine Anne Porter

The place you are going towards doesn’t exist yet, you must build it when you come to the right spot.

"Ah! poate că raiul însuşi nu este decât asta. Faptul că Wilibald Graf poate să nu-şi amintească deloc a fi fost Wilibald Graf, nenorocit pelerin pierdut pe această lume crâncenă. Poate că aceasta este semnificaţia binecuvântatelor cuvinte: "iertarea păcatelor!?

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.