Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

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

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

Have faith in yourself. Think yes not no. Live life to the full. Never give up.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.