So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen every day.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

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