Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 7, 1959
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives..
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises..
The heart of wisdom is tolerance..
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour enc….
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course..
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived..
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is ….
No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine..
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The i….
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals..
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain..
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformi….
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat..
The lesson of history is that no one learns..
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intende….
Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility..
Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will inv….
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necess….
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a v….
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of….