Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Humans are the worst kind of animals because of the circles they belong to.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

I am brave, though I am alone.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.