Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?
It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for un...
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you did...
There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means Don't leave me here alone.
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of...
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before
Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit – in the embrace of the dark...
I’m not happy about any of this, said Thor. I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You’ll see.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversatio...
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changi...
Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.