The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

War is what happens when language fails.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; god tells us to seek humility, service and love.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.