I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.