Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
A writer needs a life of introspection.
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
