We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.