Pastoral Resources

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.