Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
“Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine.”
Beauty is like an almanack if it lasts a year it is well.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
“The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.”
We agreed to love each other madly.
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
Time is given us to use in view of eternity.
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
Reinforcement is being right.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
“I always say don't make plans, make options.”
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Remember to let her into your heart
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered god and photographed him in color by 1951.
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do
So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help.
People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser.
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.