The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

I know you weren’t born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.

There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says 'yes' you know he is crooked.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.