"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
"To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road."
"Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place."
"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."