You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Humans are animals of habit.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.