Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

I'm two days away from day after tomorrowCounting the hours to my upcoming sorrow Suddenly I lookinto the eyes of my childThen all sadness goneas I smile the way she smiled

I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

Putinsim is not necessarily the end state for Russia. Russia has moved in many directions since the early 1980s.

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.