I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.