I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter 'til they bloom, 'til you yourself burst into bloom.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Failure is a greater teacher than success

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.

And then she learnt to be a little wild she had to be a little less afraid.

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

Being Happy is important, not the reason.

When you work hard, good things happen

I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.