Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

Well, we'll know better next time.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.