I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child. . . Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
I love comedy. It's where my heart is.
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.