I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Set yourself ablaze. Allow your light to shine upon others without fear. When you radiate from within, others cannot dampen your fire.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

What happens if a drone falls right next to her?

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.