He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant..

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; i….

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting..

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they ….

The interesting thing about the religious component, for me, is that Jesus hardly mentions sex at all. He's pretty interested in the poor, he's prett….

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives..

Gardening is not a rational act..

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely..

One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for ….

Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted….

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive..

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs..

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do….

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space..

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wantin….

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another..

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move….

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, t….

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress..

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze..

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear..