Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!