No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They ar...
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.
Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
It is beyond value, which means it is worthless.
There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.
I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.
Dorcas belonged, as I now realize, to that vast group of women (which may, indeed, include all women) who betray us—and to that special type who betray us not for some present rival but for their own...
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale...
Time turns our lies into truths.
The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a thing...
Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to...
You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped...
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere p...
One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.