1. “The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.”
2. “You don’t spend most of your life in other people’s heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.”
3. “Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
4. “If only. Those must be the the two saddest words in the world.”
5. “Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.”
6. “I always work in outline, so I know all the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.”
7. “Magic, like technology, is a tool.”
8. “Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.”
9. “There is more than enough seriousness in the world.”
10. “If you would rise, do so alone.”
11. “The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
12. “Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It’s social, which a writer doesn’t usually get to do.”
13. “Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.”
14. “Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
15. “Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”
