Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dragon bait--what do you stand for?Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things t...
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving make...
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against tem...
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Summer had come to sit on New York's face.
Cries for help are frequently inaudible.
Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn
I love myself, he said. But it’s unrequited.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that d...
After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monk...
Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, we...
If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative...
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
As you are surely aware, our planet is turning on its axis around and around in space. It turns slowly, however, making one complete rotation only every twenty-four hours; and that's a good thing -- i...
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysteriou...
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools o...
We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos....