The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

Remember! If during the day a person didn’t do anything concerning his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

Ocean separates lands, not souls..

He lived decades ago, she lives at the moment.A very saddening reality for her.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

It isnt always hard work that does the job.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.