She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

Technology allows more people to tell more stories in more ways. Storytelling knows no boundaries. I believe print and web can work beautifully together.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.