Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.