I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Darian murdered them in cold blood. That’s a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?