How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.