I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.

Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beaut

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

Rain makes the night -- and us -- smaller, softer, more forthright.

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

There is no wisdom without love.

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty