I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.

Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?

...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?

Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important.

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

The camera can photograph thought.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.