Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.