Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough