Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.