The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. " "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.
I'm allergic to money, because the choices that I make usually concern the people and the project itself, rather than the financial gain that is projected. I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.