We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical...
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey...
We must never be afraid to go too far for truth lies beyond.
Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her...
