I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.