The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.