"Italo Calvino, in The Uses of Literature, said that "the more technological our houses, the more their walls ooze ghosts." What does that mean? It means that the more abstract our dealings with each other, the more mysteries are created. The more mysteries, the more questions, and that's where the storyteller steps in."

"And he waves the pages of the papers, black and white the way space was when the galaxies were being formed, and crammed—as space was then—with isolated corpuscles, surrounded by emptiness, containing no destination or meaning. And I think how beautiful it was then, through that void, to draw lines and parabolas, pick out the precise point, the intersection between space and time where the event would spring forth, undeniable in the prominence of its glow; whereas now events come flowing down without interruption, like cement being poured, one column next to the other, one within the other, separated by black and incongruous headlines...."

"Gore is a man without an unconscious."

"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. (di quest'onda che rifluisce dai ricordi la città s'imbeve coma una spugna e si dilata). The city, however, does not tell of its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand..."

"I set my hand to the art of writing early on. Publishing was easy for me, and I at once found favor and understanding. But it was a long time before I realized and convinced myself that this was anything but mere chance. Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it."

"He was carried away by that mania of the storyteller, who never knows which stories are more beautiful—the ones that really happened and the evocation of which recalls a whole flow of hours past, of petty emotions, boredom, happiness, insecurity, vanity, and self-disgust, or those which are invented, and in which he cuts out a main pattern, and everything seems easy, then begins to vary it as he realizes more and more that he is describing again things that had happened or been understood in lived reality."

"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."

"In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of the written language."

"For me Calvino is one of the most wonderful writers, and the magic in his work is something that has been an influence"

"Pythagoras' idea of the transmigration of the soul is central."

"It's closer to Platonic Idealism in the theory that substantive reality is only a reflection of some other non-quantified spirit, awareness, consciousness, whatever you want to call it."

"Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. … I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile."

"The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information."

"Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre."

"Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical."

"Through the process of elimination, the observer or some aspect of awareness is indirectly quantified."

"In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold."

"When we love there is no reason why."

"Through characters, non-linear plot lines, or the involvement of multiple dimensions, it ultimately witnesses the physical world as inextricable from consciousness or the observer of that world."

"In her heart she harbors hatred for me, but it would ruin the game if we didn't have tea. The words slither out laced with venom so vile it would pucker my face but she says it and smiles."

"I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay."

"Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level."

"Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe."

"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"I am, therefore I think."

"The genre is broad and includes life."

"The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts."

"Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer."

"Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service."

"Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was."

"Those who had entrusted their leaders knew it was for a purpose, and the purpose should be maintained."

"People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon."

"How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? … it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination."

"The etymological root of the word, sex, which originated around 1350 from the Middle English, sexus, means to divide."

"It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true."

"Really, other one-pop variations of sex pale after it goes cosmic. And there is an abundance of fake or imitation sex around."

"I hated you because you reminded me of...how I once was...of what I lost."

"The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility."

"We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies."

"Isn't it ironic that the US has more porn and "sexy" advertising yet the biggest population of Viagra users?"

"Sex is powerful, it's procreative, it's a force that drives salmon to swim up stream defying rocky obstacles to thrash new forms into existence and, physiologically, the human body is also rigged with that drive that ensures the human race will continue."

"Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation."

"There is also something more [...] because as humans we possess, call it reason, spirit, consciousness, what ever, it's a numinous element beyond the perfunctory form following function."

"On Earth it was day in some places, night in others."

"It hurts to care! It hurts so much to care!"

"Sex is communication and creation. In my novel, "Flight", two lovers have sex by becoming a forest and rain."

"It's not surprising that the disconnection from real sex becomes unfulfilling."

"Unfamiliar environments heighten adrenalin, which might work for stimulating excitement or against totally relaxing into any kind of intimacy."

"Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial.""

"Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views."