Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories.

God knows our situation

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Wine always inspires sociability.