After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.
It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The...
The New World Order is established by degrees. The first degree is truth of the one subject, which follows from the existence and the oneness of the universe, and from the ancient belief that God is a...
The great lie can only be defeated by the New World Order. The sooner the New World Order is established by the institutions of the world, the sooner the suffering caused by the lie will end.
God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be...
The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time,...
No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liber...
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the found...
I'll tell you something, said Francis,urgent with shoe lace, if we keep on saying things weren't when we know perfectly well they were, we shall soon dish up any sort of chance of magic we may ever ha...
At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.
And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and h...
Books think for me.
A good book has no ending.
Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.
A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the let...
when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.