A bolt from the blue.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.