It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.