One must gauge one's trust carefully.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Your career success in the workplace of today–independent of technical expertise–depends on the quality of your people skills. (9)

I did shoplift but I didn't get in trouble for it. I shoplifted a lot when I was little. Candy. I would steal candy.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

There's never been a greater game than football.

A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.