Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

God is the giver of life.

Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.

That’s why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

You believe what you want to believe