If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

A good beginning makes a good end.

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.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.