It's A Very Bad Habit, But One

The Mandalas Were Meant To Be Objects Of Contemplation, Aids To Meditation, Their Proportions Magically Balanced To Purify And Calm The Mind. To Stare At A Mandala Was To Experience, If Only Briefly, The Nothingness That Is At The Heart Of Enlightenment.

The Monster’s Crimes Were So Horrific That A Mere Man Could Not Possibly Have Committed Them. Satan, In The End, Had To Be Invoked.

I Would Have To Say The Novel 'war And Peace' Influenced Me More Than Any Other Book. This Greatest Of Novels Demonstrated To Me The Enormous Power Of Literature And Fired Me Up With A Desire To Become A Writer, To Participate In What I Considered Then To Be The Greatest Of All Endeavors.

A Human Being Creates Complexity By Writing A Novel On The Surface Of Paper; A Weather System Creates Complexity By Writing Waves On The Surface Of An Ocean. What Is The Difference Between The Information Carried In The Words Of A Novel And The Information Carried On The Waves Of The Sea? Listen, And The Waves Will Speak, And Someday, I Tell You, You Will Write Your Thoughts On The Surface Of The Sea.

He Found Pendergast's Cool Gaze On Him, And He Fidgeted. He'd Forgotten About Those Eyes. They Made You Feel Like You Had Just Been Stripped Of Your Secrets.