The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

You and I are going to change the world.