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

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

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

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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

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

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

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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