[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion, ' said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, 'but it is very good for the heart.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you

The secret of being happy is not longing for it!

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I won’t stay, ” I warned him. “I won’t try to fight for you anymore. This is it. If you walk away it’s not for me. I won’t ever think that. I will always, always blame you for this. For ruining us.

If the door is locked, try the window.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.