Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

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.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

It was the calm before the storm, and holy crap, my bones knew it was going to be the storm of my life.

Many artists give up after a while.

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

What would our lives be like if we could all be happy no matter what?

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.