Fear, " the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

She wants her cup of stars.

Never tell yourself that it's going to be okay. Because more times than you know, it wont be okay. You'll crash and burn and your dreams will turn to ashes.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.