“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!”

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

… wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

All is pattern, all life, but we can’t always see the pattern when we’re part of it.

Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It’s such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say.

Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.

The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.

Touring is a rough thing. You don’t have any time to look around or stop and think if what you’re doing is making you happy.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.