Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

You have to really know what you're saying.

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

It's all experience; not anything original

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.