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

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.

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.

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

[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.

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.

I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.