People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.