"To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."

"If you don't like my books, don't read them. There's no law. But don't try to stop other people from reading them."

"I don't believe in magic. I believe in reality."

"The one thing that makes it possible to get through life is to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're dead."

"I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."