Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.