I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.