I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.