A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
My hands are clean, but not because I wasn’t prepared to bloody them.
Ho said, ‘I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.’
Maybe we’re the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can’t be thwarted.
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who’ve forgotten their own childhood.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make.
I buy way too many books.
There’s a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ‘good,’ to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party’s lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
Science fiction is about what could be but isn’t; fantasy is about what couldn’t be.
I’m never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.
He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant’s eye.
To have a choice at all is to be free – even when the choice is between two terrible things.
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.