“This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.”

“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.”

“Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.”

“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“Life is about showing up, so is writing. Thats why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard”

“Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard”