Not even need and love can defeat fate.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.