That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.