Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Thomas loved words, particularly if he didn’t understand them.

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.