Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.