One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.