"Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die"

“Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.”

Source : Judith Peacock, Jackie Casey (2000). “Depression”, p.4, Capstone

“Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.”

“I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.”

“It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.”

“Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.”

Source : Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

“Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.”

“When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?”

Source : "Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of The Twin Cities". Interview with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 31, 2009.

“I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.”