Quotes About Author

You trust him? he said. No, said Hastur. Right, said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

The wizards, such of them who were still on their feet and conscious, were rather surprised to see that Death was wearing an apron and holding a small kitten.

In the kitchen, chickens had overflowed into the sink. They weren't making much noise, except for the occasional 'werk' a chicken makes when it's a bit uncertain about things, which is more or less all the time.

What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?

In the open space of democracy, beauty is not optional, but essential to our survival as a species.

Our future is guaranteed only by the degree of our personal involvement and commitment to an inclusive justice.

In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." —William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III

If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.

As the mindset changes, so does the behavior, without having to prescribe the change. And where certain behaviors still need to be stipulated, the suggestions won't be systematically resisted. For these reasons, mindset change facilitates sustainable behavior change.

I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...

It was the blood: there was a turbulence in her that could not be tempered by all the good breeding of the man who had sired her

Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is? CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read the previous ones, they will go right out and purchase them. Two shillings each, a bargain at the price!

However you feel about maids' uniforms, we don't have time to overthrow the social order today.

as though someone had decided on large and ominous as a decorating style.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

It was that old mass yearning for a likeness in all things that troubled them, and him.

Peace, peace. So shall it soon be with all of us. It was a dream. It is. I am. You are. And shall we grieve over or hark back to dreams? (from My Brother Paul)

Jennie went about her work, but the impression persisted; his name ran in her mind. Lester Kane. And he was from Cincinnati.

The Mistake He left his pants upon a chair: She was a widow, so she said: But he was apprehended, bare, By one who rose up from the dead.

Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain, And found out all I could of all desire;

Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.

He is credited with inventing the story of Spock's sex life, as well as the famous Vulcan greeting, "Live long and prosper," and (with Leonard Nimoy) its accompanying hand signal.