The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no … - Henry Miller

Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks — admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.