People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.