We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

Live your life striving to complete the journey to your vision

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that - it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?" Rose: "Because I'm her guardian."

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.