"A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds inte…"

"It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move."

"No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the doo…"

"“That the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind.”"

"It will help her if she wants to be helped; if she insists on clasping her illness to her it will not."

"Evolution teaches us, Nicholas, that the original purpose of language was to ritualize men’s threats and curses, his …"

"When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted."

"One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek."

"Of the nature of Death and the Dead we may enumerate twelve kinds. First there are those who become new gods, for who…"

"We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end."