Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?

I can't say with certitude.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

To meditate on Scripture is to allow the truth of God's Word to move from head to heart. It is to so dwell upon a truth that it becomes part of our being.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.