Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Every life is a story make your life a best seller.

Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

The let-alone lies not in your good will.