For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

Ah earth you old extinguisher.

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Galen!" The crown princess flung herself into her husband's arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.

If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.