And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.
Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end
The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.
Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.
Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.
An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.