It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.