In war everybody is a prisoner.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.