and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.