For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.