“You can't save people from themselves. All you can do is stand by and watch them destroy themselves.”— Sue Grafton
“Crime is the easiest thing in the world to commit. But it's the hardest thing in the world to get away with.”— Frank Abagnale
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”— Sam Abell
“We are all doing time. The only difference is that some of us are in a place where we are not allowed to kid ourselves that we are not.”— Jack Henry Abbott
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”— Chinua Achebe
“Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'”— Alan Bean
“The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.”— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery.”— J. G. Ballard