In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

...It was borne in upon her audience that the outside of Jane's charming head was distinctly superior to the inside.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

Space does for comics what time does for film!