... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

Small things amuse small minds.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.