It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

Television and I grew up together.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.