Victory belong to the most persevering.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

There's no night without stars.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

She’d never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

If I'll be a President the inaugural balls will be replaced with an inaugural Rock Band party. For expert-level players only. Don't even think about getting on drums. I play drums.