Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Love is the true condition of human life.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners - almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women... women tend to eat less... It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing, and so most of the child-rearing.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.