You only value something if you know it’ll end.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

But it turned out you couldn't run from your past. It always found a way to track you down.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.