Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.