It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

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.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.