What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.

However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.