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The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong.
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
"Sometimes, the hardest part of life is not the suffering, but the waiting."
"The future is always a whirring blur, a possibility, not a place."
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are not meant to remember everything. We're meant to forget, to move on."
Time isn't a line; it's a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
"We are all searching for something, and sometimes, what we find is not what we expected."
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
"In the end, it's not the facts that matter, but the truths we uncover through them."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."
The personal is not private; it is political.
"The poem is not a closed field, but an open one, and the reader is invited to enter."
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
