The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

"The colony represents the site where the project of a new humanity is to be tested."

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

The opera is a beautiful and irrational world. One could spend a lifetime listening and still not understand everything.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.