“No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”
“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”
“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”
“Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]”