Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.