A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Praying paved a sacred path.

Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

Very little happens in my books.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on