“When you know you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. ”

“It is a wonderful thing when you stop living for what the world has to offer and start living for what you have to offer the world.”

“When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.”

“And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.”

“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.”

“You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”