Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.