Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.