Reality is not what it used to be.

Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!

Your history is not your future.

I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.