Weather creates character.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

My love runs deeper than the wounds.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

I always wanted to represent the natural, healthy girl, and I didn't care if it was cool or trendy to look like you hadn't eaten in two weeks.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.