She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

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.

Life is as large as you explore it.

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

I would love to do a musical!

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past.