If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.