Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or ….

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good….

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack….

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ….

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book..

'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.….

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences..

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace..

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, ca….

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects..

Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a tas….

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things..

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one..

It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have ….

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them..

Nobody steals books but your friends..

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it..

Good-bye and hello, as always..

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play up….

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill..

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ….