34 Quotes by H.G. Parry

But I need to reassure the others first. They’ll be all out of sorts.” “Reassure them of what?” “Oh, you know,” she said. “Everything’s perfectly all right, that sort of thing.” “And is it?” Charley asked. “Of course not,” she snorted. “If it were, they wouldn’t need me to tell them.

Let me try to warn you again. Knowledge is dangerous.

What we see when we look at people is just a bundle of our own interpretations.

She’s from a children’s book,” Charley pointed out. “That makes her by definition more capable than most adults.

Kind people don’t make things happen. They try to prevent bad things from happening, and they fail, and they live in fear of that failure. So do those under their protection.

I want to live in the world, unbound, following nobody’s plots but my own.

Sherlock Holmes stories glorify human intellect; his criminals are intellectual puzzles to be solved, not living breathing inhabitants of a world in their own right.

That’s what all laws should do. Impose the restrictions that, if human beings were always moral and rational, they would impose upon themselves.

I thought you were sticking to poetry lately. Those postmodern things that read like a dictionary mated with a Buddhist mantra and couldn’t possibly make any sense to anyone.” “There is not a poem on earth that doesn’t make any sense to anyone.