But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.