There’s a lot of people who don’t understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
What makes people so impatient is what I can’t figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.
He knows that there’s no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who’s trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you’re not bothered.
I been away a long time.
Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs...
Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.
You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
No one’s ever dared come out and say it before, but there’s not a man among us that doesn’t think it, that doesn’t feel just as you do about her and the whole business – feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself.
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
The frontiers we broke into in the ’60s are still largely unexplored.
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
I used to think we were going to win in the ’60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
But if they don’t exist, how can a man see them?