It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

It's so Hogwarts.

Pain is holy ground in a person's life.

...filled her memory bank with shiny coins.

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility.

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.