Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new! he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation."

Surprise is just a paradox. Sometimes it annoys us; sometimes it shakes the tears of joy within us; sometimes it makes us ponder; sometimes it ceases our words and leaves our jaws open, and sometimes,...

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is...

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

Apparently, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.

Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self - preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also...

The man who shouts wins battles

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt. It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on...

No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone.

Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them

Have you ever heard someone say 'I shouldn't have trusted my intuition'?

As he walked along, consciously enjoying the early coolness of the morning, he turned and looked behind him. People often do this and are usually surprised to find that there is some reason for...

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Psychedelics reveal what resides in and on your mind — subconscious thoughts and feelings that are hidden, repressed, forgotten, out of sight, perhaps even completely unexpected, but nonetheless...

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.

There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To "expect yourself" to expect nothing {from others} is going against human psychology. Expectation is...

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or...

Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means...

An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer {why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?} but it is deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such...

Let me out! Let me out! Let me out! Wait -- let me back in!... Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! Wait -- let me back out!