“Love is being stupid together.”

“At times I think and at times I am.”

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”

“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”

“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

“There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almos...”

“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series ...”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”

“Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.”

“One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.”

“Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.”