Quotes by : Norman Lock

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he....

I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of....

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs....

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity,....

Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity,....

While I knew him, he made me see--Poe did; made me understand that, unlike a bodily organ, the soul desires,....

Talking of appearances, I would like my future readers to know that the picture of Jim and me that Thomas....

What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was....

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must....

Forgive me,' Poe repeated earnestly.I nodded coldly. I was not above acting like a child; I was hardly....