Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.

Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? That million might be more important to the team.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.