Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

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

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.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.