I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

It is a bird’s imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.