“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing asunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.”— Rod Serling, springfieldspringfield.co.uk
“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I think I’m a very unobservant person, one who goes straight to concepts about people and ignores evidence to the contrary and the bric-a-brac surrounding that person. Stephen Spender said an amusing thing about Yeats—that he went for days on end without noticing anything, but then, about once a mon…”— Christopher Isherwood, theparisreview.org