Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

Those who think of themselves as healthy are indeed healthy - no matter what is really going on with their bodies.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.