Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.