Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.