The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.