The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

To be human is to be in a story.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.