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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

What will survive of us is love.- from A Writer

This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.