. . . there was a softness to Cash’s gaze that made her want to lean into it. It felt like being stroked with a paintbrush, all the way down her body, leaving everything tingling in its wake.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

I have not been briefed.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.