A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.