Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.

It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

That’s how it is, day after day... night after night. The Moon chases her sunsets constantly, hoping for a mere glimpse. And for him, that was enough.

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!