The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

Ideology makes people stupid.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

There were poets before Homer.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Who runs in circles never gets far.