...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

The stars will live for me, if not anything else

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

I don't even know why somebody's Twittering as me. I don't understand it, and I wish that it would stop. But there's nothing that can be done. It's so terrible.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.