But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires.

The best self is a beautiful soul.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

My hobby is my job. it's a jobby!

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

Acting is in everything but the words.

When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.