I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.