He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

If you don't take chances you can't do anything in life.

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

I hate nickels; they're quarter impersonators.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.