We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

My books are about killing God.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.