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" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

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" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "

" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "

" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "

" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "

To Be Or Not To Be

" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "