Stone. I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don’t really feel clever and don’t want to be clever. To sneak around and make plans and feel big about making them. I hate this feeling of th...
No man’s a hero to himself.
Men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells.
If you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore
You're very tired, he said. You've traveled a long way and you belong to a tired people who've been without faith a long time, and you want to believe so much now that you're interfering with yourself...
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that...
You can’t have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dream: No possible solutions.
You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry h...
You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry h...
You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for t...
Will walked silently to touch the iron rungs hidden under the rustling ivy. Dad. You won’t pull these off …? Dad probed one with his fingers. Some day, when you’re tired of them, you’ll take them off...
Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?
When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy together, and we have no complaints.
What are you up to now? I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.
We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just...
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong enough to with-stand the scrabbling assault of midnights?
Vendrán lluvias suaves y olores de la tierra,y golondrinas que girarán con brillante sonido;y ranas que cantarán de noche en los estanques y ciruelos de tembloroso blanco,y petirrojos que vestirán plu...