First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.