Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Predators did not need mercy.

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."