Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.