“The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.”

“The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.”

“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”

“But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.”

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”

“How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?”