Perfection is being happy with what you are right now.

It’s something a wise man or a wise woman knows how to do: shake off your self pity and your obsession, and put one foot in front of the other and keep moving.

There was this one idea going out to all the people on all the planets that maybe you couldn’t get people to stop being predators, but you could get them to stop being prey.

Flying with Death was like being in a sleeping bag with a sensuous woman and a tarantula.

Sometimes superheroes are regular people, and there are millions of them, typing away at their keyboards.

He was, perhaps, the crappiest meditator in the world. But he noticed this, accepted it, and let it humble him. Humility was one of the things that made him a wise man.

I was an awesome cricket.

And eventually the idea came. It wasn’t brilliant or complicated or new. It was just perfect for that particular place and time.

When people try to destroy art or thought... it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It’s a slippery slope once we start saying what people should or shouldn’t see.

It’s dangerous applying hindsight to something as complex as why someone wrote a poem, because the temptation is to try and make it make sense. We can apply reason, but what we can’t do is apply the storms and variations that govern a human mind moment to moment.