Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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

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

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.