In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.