We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Is the Starwife a witch?" asked Firgil. "Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that__ how_If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.