One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self - revelation.

Cut! Changes happen to people. But there is a face we sometimes have that hides itself.

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...

I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.

The personal eludes biology in just the way that the face in the picture eludes the theory of pigments. The personal is not an addition to the biological: it emerges from it, in something like the way...

He wanted to be a universal man … and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.'

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way - and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite...

'..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that...

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us.

The survival of man depends less on the perfection of the senses than might be believed. His reasoning ability has freed him from numerous efforts and obligations, so many of his faculties have been...

The law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

"He thinks with his heart, Uhtred," Alfred said, "not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head."

Instinct is everything.

My chalice intoxicates me.

"You know women," confided the fruitseller, "they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men, you know, they'll want them cruel." The youth stranger smiled...

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leaves the man alone.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests - - - disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns.

We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.

Not all truths are for all ears, nor can all lies be recognized as such by any pious soul.

"Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them."

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire, walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully,...

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...