“I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.”

“The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.”

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”

“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”

“What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners…I want my children to be people– each one separate– each one special– each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others”

“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”