The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.

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.

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

I hate my voice, I sound like a girl. I am in fact a male.

You don't need to take a course or buy a product. All you have to do is change your mind.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.