Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?

The problem with denying the problem is that it also denies the solution.

She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.