Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

The world is full of unused corners.

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.