Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

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

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.