A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.