I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.