Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.