When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Everything to do with time is hideous.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.