Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

I don'’t think there was one. I can'’t name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.