There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.

Hope is a slow business.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.