It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

But as the day passed, his impatience turned from a fear to a kind of glad fierceness. At least he sought this danger of his own will; and the nearer he came to it the more sure he was that, for this time at least, for this hour perhaps before his death, he was free.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.