Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.

When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything.

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

Steampunk is Victorian science fiction

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.