He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

He was so good and honest. Why couldn't I love him instead?

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.