I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.