Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.