...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...

Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call.

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.

It’s called the Pyxis, ” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.