He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

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.

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

A dream without a plan is just a wish