Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The king was pregnant.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

When you go to buy use your eyes not your ears.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.