I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

Even if all our senses fail to function − eyes turn blind and ears fail to listen − the heart will still listen, see and beat.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.