I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.