I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.