I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.