Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

People believe what they see.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.