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

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

We are all eaters of souls.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.