“Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it. It's not over till it's over. Imagination is everything. All life is an experiment. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”

“I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.”

“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.”