They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?