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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.