“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”

“Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.”

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the...”

“Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more ha...”

“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, bu...”

“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like th...”

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of...”

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”