She wants her cup of stars.

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

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.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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.

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.