Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Why aren't we investing more in alternate tech? The Saudi Arabians are, Scottish Power is. I was just there. Could it be that we're counting on the oil going on forever and ever and ever and us having all of it and getting very rich?

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

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

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.