Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, " Ringil said quietly.

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

...the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

D'you know, I put so much petrol in me car the other day, I couldn't get in!

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.