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

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.

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.

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.

Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates...

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.