I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.