Shh, ” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

If you wanted to play with fire, milady, you could have simply asked me for a kiss or three.

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it.

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

The greatest wealth is well-being.

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.