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.

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.

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

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.