public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.

Love is lovelier the 7th time around.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Never give up, no matter what.

One is very weak when one is in love.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.