Wisdom

Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

Wrong turns make the right turn all the more worthwhile, once discovered.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

He who has wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...You're a better witness for what's beautiful.

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much.

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.

Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness.