...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

"What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are."

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!