“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”

“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”

“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”