My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip

No more sounds emerged as he walked through the forest, save the whisper of the leaves above. Though nothing further appeared out of the ordinary, he knew one thing for certain. He was not alone.

Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.