Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.