Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.