Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.