The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine..

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Per….

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at..

And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. ….

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survi….

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past..

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened ….

So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has ta….

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context..

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due….

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does..

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for.

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quali….

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it..

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence..

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital..

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on..

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either..