Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.