I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.