I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

I am exceedingly angry for no good reason.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

Living in peace has transformative power!

Meeting him was fate, loving him was a choice, and spending the rest of my life with him… well that was destiny.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

I feel like I’m finally whole. I’m five thousand years old,” he rasped. “But the day you found me in the woods, that’s when my life started.

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.