As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

You don't go to school to learn about others.You go to school to learn about yourself.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

You never get every job you want.

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.