It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. ‘Don’t come too close if you know what’s good for you, these nits are on steroids.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.