It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

Manna will definitely fall from above, but it’s gonna fall for those who cultivated “manner farms” on the clouds.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

I war not with the dead.

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.