The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.