The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.

It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.

Love is not what others feel about you, , , , its what feeling you share with others.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?