Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.