For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember

It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods.""Yes, there are...

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

God's been good to me, He really has.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.