My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement.

You're the little spoon, aren't you?

What's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step?

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.