Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.

Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.