I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.