Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.