“Brings [O’Brian’s] achievement to a new height.”

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch’s ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels but alas!.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

I hear better with a pen in my hand.

Such is O’Brian’s power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next.

That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O’Brian a Master of the Art.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.