Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.