She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

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 harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.