Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.