The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Gold is the corpse of value.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

Dictators are interesting, no?

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.