People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

Expect poison from the standing water.

I am copacetic with leaning on the sacred, but I need to make sure all the mundane bases are covered before we break out the crystals and incense for a good chant.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

My worlds are complex, and often suggest more than one story.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.