Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.