Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

The sudden appearance of pain and pressure are not indicative of an injury, but of the presence of suppressed emotions.

Kings can only use their best tools.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.