Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.