Able Quote by Anne Rice

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

— Anonymous

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

— Christopher Paolini

“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He wondered where his mind had wandered this time, what life it had lived as a trail of neurons sped through networks of possibilities…

— Karl Drinkwater

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered…

— Cormac McCarthy

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac

This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with…

— Paul Auster

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize…

— Douglas Adams

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain,…

— Diana Gabaldon

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton