I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

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

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

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

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.