Don't believe in every single face that smiles at you. An evil mind is capable of putting up a smiley face.
Fear is absolutely nothing without its repeated acceptance in one's mind.
Silence, like madness, is only comparative.
Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.
I've noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous system in a way which is against its...
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
There was even a story passed among the queen's court that when she was newly born, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she was trying to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didn't believe that...
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.
We must recognize that our frustrations are largely due to the fact that we have not learned how to "dance" to a large part of the emotional spectrum. Being emotionally versatile is like being a good...
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything
There are people in the world that believe in God and those who don't. I wonder how the ones without God can live.
Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!
We each have our own language. Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone. That's why some of...
Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater,...
What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night
The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore. - - Lucifer from Kevin
I may be clean cut on the outside, but make no mistake. He moved even closer, close enough to see her pulse jump at the base of her neck. I like to get very, very dirty when nobody's looking.
A person's name is a fate - conjuring incantation.
The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.
Energy out of control is dangerous
I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself.
Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.
If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the...
I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.
And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull...
There will always be the facts of life to contend with, and there are times when the facts can become overwhelming. Yet, there is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...