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

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

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.

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.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

If you want to test how powerful your mind is, simply start thinking positively and see the results for yourself.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.