Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

You are What you do When it counts" - Armor

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?

Fate is the cruelest of masters, takingLife when it pleases or at random, handingRigged decks to whom it pleases, cheatingAll alike and none the wiser, takingEverything away from those with nothing.

Twice – Once too often.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.