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

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.

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

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

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.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

I think you should stay with your trainers, with your team, and support them.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!