Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

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

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

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.