The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

Creativity is a continual surprise.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.