Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.

Quit yourselves like men.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

I was born black and female.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.