Walter Van Tilburg Clark Quotes

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Is it really so important to be different?

Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.