In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Only people can change people

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason.