It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.