“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In some of my works I take away other elements of the world - normalcy, sex drive, sense of time, memory, a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain of it, and yet, pain is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image