No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.