“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

“When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”

“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.”

“Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game.”

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”