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

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Love is the true condition of human life.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.