Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

Shrews are made, not born.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.