Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.