Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

True understanding is the spur of genius