I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Let the past go, Bren, or it will ruin your future.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.