... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The king was pregnant.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.

Sometimes, we can’t help but to shed tears!

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks