What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.