Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

All Thing Serve the Beam

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.