Quotes of: Francis Keyword

The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Prodigy

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Prodigy

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

The Pursuit Of Simplicity

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

The Privilege of Being a Woman

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Trauma and Recovery

Everyone's life is a mess. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

Trapped

Know this much:regret nothing. Each part of your journey is essential to the whole. The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination. Ninetah,the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

The Traveler

PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.” “Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?

Trapped

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style.

Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Think a Second Time