Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy’s begetter and its only hope of healing.
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...
I don’t like PG-13 horror movies. I think they’re a contradiction in terms.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we’ll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; they’re history. You’re in a darker place now.
The extraordinary’s the norm.
Give me B movies or give me death!
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Always, worlds within worlds.
I haven’t even had a life I could call my own, and you’re ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don’t think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
You must be careful with kindness. It’s usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!
Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes – if necessary – brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.
It was as though in these last minutes together – when they had so much to say – they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.