As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.

Every moment you are separated from love it makes it so much harder to remember why a heart was shared

Darling, you keep up that attitude and you’ll see how bad I can really be.

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.