Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Creation is much in need of ordering.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.