After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.