Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.