I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...

My Wife, I get to keep you forever. ~Lucian Bane~

Time has come to reconsider the existence of aether in space due to recent developments in science on existence of dark energy in space.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there’s no going back.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.