...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.