A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

Can you walk the road your dream goes?Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.Who is not....

For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.

In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.

Every mistake is a new learning adventure.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.