A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.