Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.