'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.