Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it didn't really work, and it killed everything else in the forests, and it wasn't good for the people who were exposed to it, either. So he was an early proponent of not doing that, but, of course, nobody listened.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.