You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

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.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.