It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

To preserve the past is to save the future...

Fear and logic belong together.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.