I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.