Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

I write with all my heart

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.