"It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling an…"

"Include me in your lamentations."

"When I from life's unrest had earned the grace Of utter ease beside a quiet stream; When all that was had mingled in …"

"For sorrow and joy are one, and all the past And all the future mingle in a kiss."

"They said: "She dwelleth in some place apart, Immortal Truth, within whose eyes Who looks may find the secret of the …"

"Beloved, it is morn! A redder berry on the thorn, A deeper yellow on the corn, For this good day new-born."

"Aut lego vel scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam, obsecro celsithronum nocte dieque meum, vescor, poto libens, rithmizans…"

"All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the w…"