In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?