Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?

Then an argument would ensue because they were men with different ideas.

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

The present is elastic to embrace infinity.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.