I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Lonely was much better than alone.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

Every child ought to be educated.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

We... we are basically good.""Haven't you been paying attention, Littlepip? Deep inside, we're all raiders.""No! That's not true.""No? Even the best of us fall to evil at the drop of a hat.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.