I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person.

Today healing energy constantly flows through every organ, joint and cell in my body.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.