It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can't please everyone, so don't try.

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.

Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

If you don't like something don't do it, and if you're doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.

The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.