“Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.”

“Every ounce of breath we inhale is invention and every ounce of breath we exhale could be re-invention. ”

“For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”

“Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.”

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”