I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

People don't want other people to be people.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

I know that the future seems hard and scary, but it will get better, I promise. It's time for you to move on. Get going.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.