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

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.