Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.