“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”

“As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“We can easily forget a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”

“As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way…We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.”