Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Sitting and looking at obstacles gives you nothing but dark circles. Stride for solutions.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I still dont consider myself a fashion girl.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.