A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

In reading we must become creators.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.