This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.