To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

The Captain, so close as he was, didn’t warrant their attention. Even a fly on a horse’s hindquarters gets a tail whip. And that is the thick of it. We are less than flies to these foul foes.

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.

The sweetest apples are eaten first.

Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

I feel like I am always searching for my purpose. I'm always wondering what that is.