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- Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
- Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we…
- Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
- We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world,…
- He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care…
- One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
- Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice…
- I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically…
- The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from…
- That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so…
- But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good…
- Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
- Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that…
- I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
- ...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
- In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a…
- If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in…
- Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the…
- The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a…
- On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
- More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who…
- From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts…
- Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone…
- When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given -…
- I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to…
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