“You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinati...”

“And when the sun sets...then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dyingstars and planets and galaxies. And the bigger the telescope they can make, and t...”

“No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never...”

“Kittens can happen to anyone.”

“Drab and colorless as her existence would seem to have been, Mrs. Harris had always felt a craving for beauty and color and which up to this moment had manifested itself in a love for flowers....Ou...”

“No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.”

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

“As with writing by candlelight, ones greatest ideas come from the flickering between darkness and light.”

“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”