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" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "

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" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

" There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. "

" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

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

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

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

" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "

" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "