Status Updates From Changing Planes

"If wishes were horses, I'd have a whole herd of them, roan and buckskin, lovely wild horses, never bridled, never broken, galloping over the plains past red mesas and blue mountains. But cowards ride rocking horses made of wood with painted eyes, and back and forth they go, back and forth in one place on the playroom floor, back and forth, and all the plains and mesas and mountains are only in the rider's eyes."

"In this they resemble any reasonable being who does an unreasonable thing and justifies it with reasons. War, for example. My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war."

"Learning Nna Mmoy is like learning to weave water."

There is no information about corporations.There is only disinformation.Even after they collapse, imploding into a cratered ruin stinking of burnt stockholder and surrounded by an impenetrable barrier formed by members of Congress and other government officials holding hands and wearing yellow tape marked Private Property,No Trespassing, Keep Out,No Hunting,Fishing,or Accounting - even then there is no truth in them.

"Just before thy began to shovel in the earth, the Queen had laid on Sissie's coffin the diamond brooch that had come down to her, mother to daughter, for seventeen generations from Erbinrasa of the North, a jewel that no hand had ever touched that was not of the blood of the Erbinnas. Now it lay in the grave of the Little Common Girl. "It was not as bright as her eyes," the Queen said."

"For them, dream is a communion of all the sentient creatures in the world. It puts the notion of self deeply into question. I can imagine that for them to fall asleep is to abandon the self entirely, to enter or reenter the limitless community of being, almost as death is for us."

"I hate complaining to strangers -- you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well"