In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

Life is short. Jingle your bells.

Inception. Invention. Innovation.

My heart is your home.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.