It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good books tell the truth, even when they're abo…

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the sp…

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.