It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.

I want what everybody wants, that's how I know I'm still breathing.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.