Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.