It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.