He had placed the life of every one of his men before his own, and if that wasn’t the sign of a truly great leader, then he didn’t know what was.

It was about time she woke up to reality and realized that there was more to being a vampire than just feeding from blood.

Her fingers dug into the doorframe she leaned on, hoping and praying that he would just step out of the shadows and kiss her the way he had done so often in her dreams.

There is nothing hidden in the hidden time. Know that this, the hidden time, is your everlasting, and live.

We are each what never leaves us, what we never seethe back ofis the self. But what loves usis at the back, as Eurydice wasescorting him outwithout his knowing.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

Those who go along get along.

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.