You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.