Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.