It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely essential to tell the story, it would be butchery. The end result would horrify you. Essential is the bones of the story, but the soul lives somewhere else.

Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.