Young men of my type are prone to be impatient of details, and give their loyalties without regard to evidence.

How like a spoon with a razor edge is human need.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to its sequel.

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words:...

You can go to war with the world, but the world will always win

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

Legends about predictions are common throughout the Human Family. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak.

how easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism

Narziss was dark and thin of face, and Goldmund open and radiant as a flower. Narziss was a thinker and anatomiser, Goldmund a dreamer and a child. Yet things common to both could bridge these...

The sympathetic but sentimental man who sings the song of the blessed child also longs to return to nature, innocence, and the beginnings, but has completely forgotten that children are by no means...

Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.

A human being can bear a week of thirst, fourteen days of hunger, several years without a roof, but cannot endure loneliness.

just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Every place is the same place in the dark.

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to...

"The real shit {that was Mo’s mantra} is pigeons, not their shit. Divorce is when you take away what you no longer need from those you no longer love."

So why'd you part ways with this Dickie Orr person?" Lula asked. "He's a jerk." "Good enough for me," she said. "I hate him already."

I find people confusing.

A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be sated by all the creatures in the world, nor a fair-eyed woman by any amount of men. THE KAMA...