A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

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.

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

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

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.