Right, " said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.

Between roars the lion purrs.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.