The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Love is the true condition of human life.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

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.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.