Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.