Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.