Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Never moon a werewolf.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.