Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
Life is a state of mind.
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.
My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.