A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.

The devil is the initiator of persecution

Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.