People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.