I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.