“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.”
“There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.”
“I did not write it. (Uncle Tom's Cabin) God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”
“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.”