I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.