The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.