There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop, ’ declares Elsie.

Drink the sun’s warmth and the moon’s icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

Visions and words go together only when inspirations connects them!

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.