A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.