Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Invest in yourself so others can invest in you.

A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

We must think nationally about the [trails] system and act locally to link trails and make the system happen.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.