The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

love is my thighs, this belly, my eyes.love is my speech, the search, my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

Repeating positive installing statements for a few minutes, and then thinking negatively the rest of the day neutralizes the effects of the positive words.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.