God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher