Michael F. Flynn

"No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s."

"He read the document a second time, but the words had not changed."

"He could not live again in Paris. It had seemed better then only because he had been younger, and had not yet known contentment."

"He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age."

"The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms."

"Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man w…"

"Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking."

"There seemed no face within the cowl, only a black emptiness, and the notion sprang irresistibly to Dietrich’s mind that this was Death, now these dozen years overdue, treading a weary mountain trail …"