I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.

That and loneliness.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.