We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism, ...

People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.