Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

from the day you left I should've seen that life wasn't all its cracked up to be

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.

No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

You don't get fewer followers saying outrageous stuff on Twitter.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party