Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

Show me good, i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse...

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today, ' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.