You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Lucid Dreaming is the ability of a brain to download the information of a possible futuristic state of an event from a Parallel Universe.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.