Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.