Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.