Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.

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Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL