Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Why can’t I have my own life?!

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

Second class travel is better than third class walking.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

History is as much an art as a science.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

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