Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith.

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. ☥

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Life is one big transition.