You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.