"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"You can make anything by writing."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."