We live at the level of our language.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Where a woman's faith in herself ends

None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.

I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.