Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.