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

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.

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.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin.

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No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.