The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.