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

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" 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. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

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" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

To Be Or Not To Be

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

" 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. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

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

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

" 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. "