Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

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

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