She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

[If] I'm talking about something, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily doing it.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.