You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.