Miranda doesn't dream, she simply rests. When Miranda's eyes are at ease, her mind is at peace.

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.

Love is love's reward.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Reality trumps rationality.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.