He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

You don't want to vilify your ego.

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.