Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

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

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

This world has need of song and sword.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

Act as if it was, and it will be.

When we live in the past, there is no future.

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.