Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

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

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.