We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling.""I didn't mean no harm, " I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?""Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing it.... it was just awful!

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.