You have to do disappointment twice.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.