Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

We create a better world with beautiful deeds.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.