Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.