An only child is never twelve.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.