Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Eric’s Law of Lunch henceforth.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!