There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

You are a gift, so open yourself everyday to see the beauty with love, wonder and feel the joy.

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.