When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.