I never thought it would be easy to serve God, " she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Only fools prefer the past!

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

It never hurts to be nice" - Anne Heinrich

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.