The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The king was pregnant.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow.

It is God’s desire that every one of us is involved in serving Him with all our heart and soul

-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.

And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.

It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.

I don’t believe in happy endings, ” Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. “Just happy beginnings.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.