Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness