It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.

This perfect, eternal, Holy exchangeIs worship that satisfies both heaven and earth:

She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.