When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Dont spoil reputation with too speaking.

The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.