“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“An author is a writer who didn't give up.”

“It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”

“Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.”

“Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.”

“Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.”

“No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”