I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

There must come a time when the bullets will run out

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.