The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck.

Maturity, ” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then-she only loved the rose; And then-herself alone; and then- She knew not what, but now-she knows.