"With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week."
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
"We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted."
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too."
"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia."
