Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

Money to a writer is time to write.